Over $6.3m in cannabis seized in Gasparillo

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice seized cannabis val­ued at over TT $6.3 mil­lion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Gas­par­il­lo on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that a ship­ment of nar­cotics had been im­port­ed from South Amer­i­ca and was be­ing stored at a lo­ca­tion in Gas­par­il­lo. Fur­ther in­tel­li­gence iden­ti­fied two premis­es with­in the Re­form Phase 4 Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment.

Sur­veil­lance was con­duct­ed at both lo­ca­tions and co­or­di­na­tion was es­tab­lished with the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force. Of­fi­cers lat­er ex­e­cut­ed search war­rants at two apart­ment build­ings with­in the de­vel­op­ment.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers seized 109 pack­ets of cannabis weigh­ing 57.42 kilo­grammes with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT $6,316,200. Po­lice al­so seized TT $119,900 and USD $146.

The nar­cotics and cash were found con­cealed in­side one of the apart­ments.

No oc­cu­pants were present at the time of the search.

Po­lice said in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing and ar­rests are ex­pect­ed.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice stat­ed that the ex­er­cise forms part of on­go­ing op­er­a­tions tar­get­ing the im­por­ta­tion, stor­age and dis­tri­b­u­tion of il­le­gal nar­cotics and in­volved co­or­di­na­tion be­tween di­vi­sions.